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Downtown, Lafayette, Louisiana, is one of the fastest growing, medium sized cities in the United States. The city has seen a lot of growth in the past ten years, and has had an issue keeping up. Lafayette has been ranked the number one place for young adults to move to and get started in a new career, by the Souther Business and Development Magazine in 2011. The city has a rich history in French Creole and Cajun culture. The culture of the city has a vibrant history in art and music. Lafayette has also been ranked tastiest town in the south, by Southern Living magazine in 2012. With the economic and population growth of the city, issues with housing and with the buildings needed to accommodate the commercial growth. The Creative Action Group, located in Lafayette, along with the University of Lousiana-Lafayette, came up with a design competition to help solve some of the issues the city is seeing with the amount of recent growth. The goals of the competition are to find a new innovative way to connect the city with a sustainable approach, unite the different parts of the city and also represent the history and rich culture of the city. It is important that the new master plan has a 24 hour commuity feel and a strong urban core. The project boundary is divided into six different districts: Main Street, Lee and Johnston, Lee and Vermillion, Transportation hub, Freetown-Port Rico, and University and Johnston.
Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program’s four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring, and design has been standard practice for cities seeking to rejuvenate their downtowns for decades there is disquiet among downtown managers and civic leaders about the versatility of the program. Resilient Downtowns provides communities with the "en-RICHED" approach, a four-step process for downtown development, which focuses on residential development, immigration strategies, civic functionality, heritage tourism, and good design practice. Examples from fourteen small cities across the US show how this process can revitalize downtowns in any city.
This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues pertinent to both research and practice of community development. The evolution of community development as an area of scholarship and application, and the subsequent founding of the discipline, is vital to capture. At the 50-year mark, it is particularly relevant to revisit issues that reoccur throughout the last five decades and look at approaches to addressing them. These include issues and themes around equity and inclusion, collective impact, leadership and policy development, as well as resilience and sustainability. Community change over time has much to teach us, and this set will provide a foundation for fostering understanding of the history of community development and its focus on community change. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Community Development.